Other high-frame-rate titles like Civilization: Beyond Earth and Dirt Rally exhibit similar-if a bit more minor-energy savings. All told, it’s a healthy 34-percent reduction in wattage at the wall. The minimum amount of power drawn from the wall while running with FRTC off is higher than the maximum power draw with FRTC set to 55 fps. It’s a power hog with its frame rate left unencumbered (in the low to mid 100s). Take a look at that BioShock Infinite chart, especially the Fury X results. To get a good bead on any noise level and GPU temperature improvements, we ran the Heaven Valley benchmark in 15-minute loops and took note of peak decibel levels and temps under load once the cards were nice and warmed up. We then fired up Dirt Rally, BioShock Infinite, and Civilization: Beyond Earth at 1440p and measured minimum and maximum system power draw levels with FRTC off, capped at 55 fps, and capped at 75 fps. We rounded up AMD’s new flagship Radeon Fury X and a Sapphire Tri-X Radeon 390x to observe FRTC’s impact on both liquid-cooled and traditional air-cooled video cards. The bottom line: Constraining your frame rate often has a negligible impact on the overall gameplay experience, and as you’ll see in a minute, the benefits to doing so might be worth pursuing. If you click to enlarge the image, you’ll seen the frame rate in the upper-left corner-an insane 2550fps.Įven during normal gameplay, though, the advent of AMD’s FreeSync has reduced the need for insanely high frame rates. I was reasonably startled when I discovered how much needless electricity that was consuming, and the difference it made to GPU temperature and overall noise.Ī Civilization: Beyond Earth menu screen. Being a fairly lightweight game, my fps spiked north of 2000 inside the menus. The need for FRTC made itself abundantly clear when I booted up Civilization: Beyond Earth and noticed that literally thousands of frames were being wasted in the menus. Plus, a reduction in noise output from our video cards mean more immersion in our games.
Less heat on your card means less stress, and less stress means a longer, healthier lifespan for your hardware. Saving a few bucks on your power bill is likely lower on the priority list, but the dog days of summer and scorching GPU temperatures don’t mix. This wasteful behavior prompted AMD to design FRTC.
AMD RADEON SETTINGS FRAME RATE TARGET CONTROL PC
Your PC is effectively throwing them away and needlessly taxing your video card on three fronts: Power, noise, and temperature. Why on Gaben’s green earth would we PC gamers-who are addicted to stunning eye candy and smooth-as-silk frame rates-want to limit our fps? Well, there are a ton of games out there that hit super-high frame rates on modern video cards. Why AMD’s Frame Rate Targeting Control exists The Frame Rate Target Control options in AMD’s Catalyst Control Center.
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